With practical information for both the beginner and advanced outdoorsman, the book is an authoritative, comprehensive, and entertaining guide that will enable anyone to master the outdoors and hunt, fish, and camp like an expert. HUNT BETTER How to track a buck, make the toughest shots, master bowhunting and knife skills, and haul, butcher, and cook wild game. FISH SMARTER Advice on the best techniques for flyfishing, baitcasting, and spinning, as well as surefire ways to get the most out of y
$ 11.95
Can’t put the darn thing down,
This is packed with wonderful stuff. Beautiful illustrations, practical and just plain smart advice on every page, some of the best insider’s tips I’ve ever read anywhere, great recipes, all the fundamentals to help you enjoy (and maybe even survive) the outdoors as much as possible. Pretty much like a couple of hundred issues of the magazine squeezed into one easy-to-follow, browsable-as-hell volume.
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|Wow! Field and Stream “Got it”,
I may sound like one of the judges on “Dancing with the Stars”, but Field and Stream nonetheless “got it” with this book. They hit a home run, a “wow” type book, one of the best in its genre to come off the presses lately (I rate it a strong 9 out of 10 🙂 In this day and age when a lot of people don’t like to read books as much as they used to, what with tv, dvds, and the internet, this book will make you want to read again. It has 374 tips divided into four sections; camping, fishing, hunting, and survival. Each tip is complete with excellent photos, very good illustrations, and a superb graphic layout. The information has been written by a cadre of Field and Stream’s finest writers; experts in their respective fields. The colors and layout reach out and grab you, and make you want to put the book down and go implement the information you just read. I can’t wait to see if they ever come up with a sequel to this title, and if their main competitor, Outdoor Life, can ever come up with anything this good. There is a ton of information contained in this manual, which if you implement, you will in fact become a better outdoorsman, on your way to becoming a “Total Outdoorsman”. This is a contest that Field and Stream has instituted and is gaining in popularity every year. There are indeed a few tips of the 374 that I would argue might have been better researched, but nonetheless this book does a superb job of providing useful information. It would be an excellent gift for anyone.
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|How Can This Many People Like This Book?,
This is the first negative book review I have ever done but this book is not worth the money it cost to print it. The book is beautifully laid out (as a graphic designer I really like the design), but lacks any real substance. There are far better books on the market than this one. If you are looking for survival or outdoor training, can I advise looking at 98.6 degrees, the art of keeping your ass alive by Cody Lundin, Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski or any number of the survival books by Tom Brown Jr. This book could get you killed if you didn’t know what you are doing. I have personally attended survival training with Tom Brown and the information from a camping and survival aspect is terrible. Their little blurb on bow drill fire making (which this review is longer than)is far too short to learn anything, and is in the incorrect order to start with and leaves out any real idea of scale of the parts to create something that will make fire. As I flipped through it(because pictures outweigh the copy), I feel as though Field and Stream were paid by gear manufacturers to put their product in here.
It is not an ultimate anything other than good marketing if they sold this many copies.
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